Do you struggle with stress or negativity? Learn how self-compassion can help you find greater health, peace, emotional stability and joy. Cutting-edge research shows that self-compassion is not only a skill anyone can strengthen through practice but also one of the strongest predictors of mental health and wellness. The practices in this book have been specially formulated to target and fortify what neuroscientists call the "care circuit" of the brain. Devoting thirty minutes a day for just fourteen days to these simple practices can have life-changing results. Tim Desmond's "Map to Self-Compassion" will engage your mind, heart and spirit. It will improve your ability to motivate yourself with kindness; regulate and defuse intense emotions, anxiety and depression; be resilient during life's challenges; let go of self-criticism and destructive behaviour; heal painful experiences; and be more present and compassionate with others. Experience the benefits firsthand! Features downloadable audio recordings for on-the-go practice.

This lucidly written guide integrates cutting-edge neuroscience with mindfulness and traditional Buddhist practices to show mental health professionals how they can help clients develop a more loving, kind and forgiving attitude towards themselves. Researchers now understand that self-compassion is a skill that can be strengthened through deliberate practice, and that it is one of the strongest predictors of mental health and wellness. The brain's compassion centre, which neuroscientists call the Care Circuit, can be targeted and fortified using specific techniques. Filled with illuminating case examples, Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy shows readers how to apply self-compassion practices to treat depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, relationship problems, self-sabotage and more. Readers do not need to have any background in mindfulness in order to benefit from this book. However, those that do will find that self-compassion practices have the capacity to add new layers of depth to mindfulness-based therapies such as Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over to the police, charged and sent for trial. A month later, a young doctor is shot dead on the streets of Mohill, Co. Leitrim. The two incidents are connected, but how? In the days following the shooting of Dr Paddy Muldoon, the name of a local priest was linked to the killing and rumours abounded of a connection to the events in Dublin a month earlier and also that an IRA gang had been recruited to carry out the murder. However, despite an investigation at the time, the murder remained unsolved for almost 100 years. Now, newly discovered archive material from a range of sources, including the Muldoon family, has made it possible to piece together the circumstances surrounding the doctor's death, and reveals how far senior figures in the Church, State and IRA were willing to go to cover up a scandal.

Learning, engagement and enrichment are at the very core of any museum's mission. This new collection shares the global experience of innovative professionals - in museums and galleries large and small - who have expanded the effectiveness and the boundaries of the museum learning process. We've reviewed literally hundreds of MuseumsEtc chapters and selected the most important ones to help you enhance your organization's learning initiatives. This book will help you to: align your programmes with your audiences' needs; develop effective new learning partnerships; unlock the full learning potential of your collections; explore controversial and conflicting perspectives; democratize and expand learning opportunities; and use new technology intelligently to enhance learning.

Leo Messick, a born masochist, finds sexual pleasure in pain and humiliation. He loves to be beaten and reviled by sadistic women. But finding the perfect dominatrix to administer delightful flagellation and abuse is no simple task. While on vacation, Leo encounters Wanda, a beautiful and severe disciplinarian. And, fortunately, he learns that she lives in his home town of San Diego. Back in San Diego, Leo becomes Wanda's slave. Their "affair" is carried out in a "Purgatory" in San Diego that is furnished with delightful torture regalia. It proceeds to Europe and a medieval torture chamber. From there Leo follows Wanda the Whip Lady to experience actual brutal slavery in the rain forests of South America. Come, join Leo on his sensual, painful odyssey.

Oh, those horny gods. Over the last couple of millennia the prudes have emasculated and spayed them mercilessly. Here they are with all their sexual apparatus, their lust, their promiscuity, and their humor Here's the real scoop on that lively Olympian bunch. Apollo will shag anything, including trees. And Jupiter, that naughty king of the gods, keeps turning himself into a bull to satisfy mortal girls who really believe that size matters. Do you know about the itch that Venus has between her lovely legs? Who can satisfy it? You might be surprised. Open this book and see for yourself what this promiscuous group of zany gods were up to in their day. You just might decide that religion can be fun again - if your gods happen to be Roman.

Colleen O'Merry was dominatrix to the sexiest movie stars in Hollywood. The masochistic actors and actresses there paid her lavishly to whip them mercilessly. But Colleen was no stranger to the receiving end of BDSM herself. She had learned to love pain from her sadistic father. She was forced to perform fellatio and be severely beaten by her boss. A group of perverted sailors subjected her to extreme physical and sexual indignities on her voyage from Ireland to America. In America she was taught how to inflict exquisite pain to others with her bullwhip, as well as how to bear the most refined agony herself as well. To become a virtuoso dominatrix, Colleen first had to learn how to be a willing slave. This Irish sexpot just loved to whip. And to be whipped. Wouldn't you just love to feel the sting of her whip yourself?

Ah, Paris What do you think of immediately when you think of Paris? Sex, of course. French kisses, French ticklers, French dirty postcards... Tonie, a sexy sweetheart who has just graduated from high school in San Diego thought those same thoughts when her parents gave her a trip to Paris as a graduation present. When she got to Paris, what did she find? A dreamboat Sorbonne student who, when he met the American Girl in Paris thought...sex. In the most romantic city in the world, Tonie and Cyrille do it in the Latin Quarter, in the artist quarter of Montparnasse, even in the castle of Versailles. He teaches her French style. She teaches him American style. It's an international sex riot. Ah, Frisco What do you think of immediately when you think of San Francisco? Sex, of course. The City by the Bay is the most open city in America for sexual expression. Rex arrives in Frisco from Seattle with all his genitals intact. But because of a bizarre misunderstanding, three sex-starved honeys get

Welcome to five ribald stories about zany characters who run into funny things happening on their way to getting laid. There's Tim, who before heading off to college gets invited by a mature lady to frolic with her at a transgender hotel. Does he ever get the surprise of his young life. Then there's Jimmy who is giving sex lessons to his lady boss' daughter. Guess who drops by to teach him a thing or two. You won't want to miss what happens unexpectedly when two famous politicians bring their dates to a boutique sex restaurant in Sacramento. Finally, there are two stories about Flaming Mame, the San Francisco stripper, who gets quite different reactions from a Central Valley rancher and a Latin teacher. It's all about sexual diversity and perversity in California.

The gals of the Wild West had to be ready for just about anything. But what they knew was in store for them, being outnumbered 100 to 1 by males, was sex. Big Nose Kate came west to make money whoring in the wild environment. But she also came because she loved sex in whatever form the cowboys, gamblers, desperados and drifters could provide in the way of carnal entertainment for her. When she became the "steady gal" of the cold-blooded killer and card-sharp gambler, Doc Holliday, she couldn't bear to give up practicing the trade she loved. Which meant fireworks aplenty when Doc Holliday showed his displeasure. Calamity Jane was no whore. Well, most of the time she wasn't. She was a rip-snorting, bullwhip wielding, pistol packing gal of the West. Her boyfriend (or was he her husband?) Wild Bill Hickok was her man. But she had the hots for others, including Deadwood Dick. These two Doves of the Golden West tell their own stories in their own words. And are

Oh, those Anglo-Saxons and their dirty four-letter words. The words weren't dirty to the Anglo-Saxons back in the Dark Ages when they brought their English language to Britain from the Continent. The words were simply descriptions of body parts and functions. Fuck, cunt, piss, shit, arse - what's "dirty" about those words? Later prudes chose Latin and French translations like intercourse, vagina, feces and derriere as polite substitutes. Bah Prudery And with their Anglo-Saxon words the earliest speakers of our language brought their Anglo-Saxon tales: Beowulf the Brave, the well-hung hero who fought three monsters, two of them with his "member" rather than with his sword. Wulfgar the Stalwart, that anti-hero who was one mean mother... His sex partners included geese, sheep, women, and... oh yes. That one time...the good looking dude... Wulfgar was an equal opportunity sex fiend. With their earthy words and those randy heroes and anti-heroes, what kind of go"

Tim Axelrod comes home from college to Hollywood for Spring Break. His good friend (and lover) Karl invites him to experience sex like few mortals ever get to enjoy - Sex with a vampire. Yes, Hollywood is infested with vampires ready to show a college boy one heck of a time. Once you've been fanged and shagged by a Hollywood vampire, you will never return to unimaginative, commonplace sex again. But, oh, yes. There's a little price to pay for the pleasure. You become UNDEAD as a result. Come step into the world of vampire sex. There's nothing like sex with fangs in your jugular. It is all told in Dracula Sucks Hollywood Dudes.

Among a large cast of sexy Hollywood hustlers, meet Rock Stone, an eighteen year old blond "male starlet," the lover of both Henri, a leading man and of Marlene, an aging leading lady. Rock is also hotly pursuing a muscular young stud who recently caught his eye. And Willa, who is married to a famous screenwriter/ director. She is cheating with a world famous leading man. When her husband catches the two of them in the act, he wreaks an unexpected revenge. And then there's Kinkie, the sexy lapdancer who dances herself from her cabaret into the arms of one of the richest men in America. Does she ever know the steps.

What a lusty group that was sitting around the Round Table. Lancelot was having an affair with Queen Guinevere. And with other assorted knights, ladies, and boys as well. King Arthur got his sister pregnant and their son was trying to kill him. Arthur's other sister was plotting to murder him. And that power mad rascal Merlin was a wicked piece of work. And that's just for starters. If you're looking for sex, murder, adventure skullduggery and comedy, the early Celtic tales about Arthur and his randy knights is your meat. Come on in and meet the Arthurian characters they left out of the children's books.

Pity poor Robin Hood. Any red-blooded young Saxon can rob from the rich to give to the poor. Can win every archery contest in seven shires. Can keep seven-score rowdy, randy Merrymen under control. But those feats are not what made him a hero. He did it all wearing too tight tights. That is why he is celebrated in minstrelsy and in Hollywood movies. What outline did Maid Marian see etched against the crotch of those too tight tights? Friar Tuck wisely said that Robin Hood was an outlaw who could not be hanged. Because the womenfolk in Nottingham knew he was already well hung. Robin's true lusty adventures can now dare to be told in Tim Desmondes' revealing tale -- Inside Robin's Too Tight Tights.